Big Ideas
Big Ideas
Interactions with other people reveal their varied perspectives and thus expose human diversity.
Fiction presents sociocultural and historical elements that have been adapted and shaped by the author.
Looking for information in multiple sources provides different points of view and enriches knowledge and vocabulary.
The interpretation of a text
oral, written, visual
depends as much on its structure and visual presentation as on its content.
Content
Learning Standards
Content
Students are expected to be able to know and understand the following in various contexts:
communication strategies:
- active listeningthe recipient is physically and intellectually engaged, and reacts to what is heard
- consideration of other people’s perspectives
- registers of language
- colloquial language: language that does not conform to proper usage, is spoken between friends, and can include slang or popular expressions
- standard language: language that conforms to proper usage and is used in daily life
- examples:
colloquial: “Ché pas où est ton bouquin.”
standard: “Je ne sais pas où est ton livre.”
- self-correction
cultural and historical elements
literary elements:
- characteristics of the comic bookpanels, characters, dialogue, text/image relationship, ellipsis, onomatopoeia, personification, etc.
- characteristics of the biographypoint of view, historical setting, quotations, references, etc.
text organization:
- narrative structuresetting, inciting incident, rising action, falling action and resolution
- structure of informational textsthematic progression
- chronological organization
- bibliographies
- punctuationquotation marks, colon and parentheses
language elements:
- adverbstime, place, manner, quantity, cause and result
- simple relative pronounsqui, que, quoi, dont and où
- negationne…plus, ne…jamais, ne…rien
- verb moods and tenses associated with the genres being studied
revision strategies
rereading, consulting reference tools, using a revision grid, etc.
Curricular Competency
Learning Standards
Curricular Competency
Students are expected to be able to do the following, using oral, written and visual formats:
Exploring and Reflecting
Identify the cultural and historical elements in Aboriginal and other texts
oral, written, visual
, to put them into context
Describe the dominant mood of a written work or its audiovisual adaptation
Distinguish secondary ideas from main ideas in a text
oral, written, visual
Distinguish objectivity from subjectivity in a text
oral, written, visual
Analyze the interdependence of text
oral, written, visual
and image
Obtain information from various sources and sift through this information to identify the most relevant elements
Creating and Communicating
Adapt a message by taking into account its intention
purpose of the message (e.g., to inform, convince, etc.)
and audience to ensure comprehension
Describe the characters in a work based on their actions, and according to the social and historical context
Use biographical details from different sources to recreate the life of a character
Synthesize information from different texts
oral, written, visual
Organize and write a text
oral, written, visual
following the structures under study
Revise own work using reference tools
e.g., dictionary, Bescherelle (reference for verb conjugations), etc.